Idiom for describing an unintended benefit.
What are the idioms and idioms for saying “unintended benefit” that results from an action taken?
Why
have we always stumbled upon something unexpected or by chance found
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a trusted Oxford dictionary?
- Happy accident
- to boot
- icing on the cake
- gravy
(in order of ethical virtue/vice of circumstances)
(Fair Haven)
Single word-> word-> bonanza….. a noun that means “a sudden rush of wealth or good fortune. ”
- “the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line”
manna from heaven :
unexpected help or comfort. What was the manna from
- heaven in the exercise-haters, for a sedentary society with elevated levels of obesity and diabetes? Exercise less and live longer! (Forbes, Feb 8, 2015)
Happy Accident describes your intention:
a pleasant situation or event that is not planned or intended – We never planned to have a third child – it was a happy accident
Fortuitous is a somewhat looser fit
adjective 1. How do you use an accident to happen to someone, either to surprise the person or to prevent the accident from happening or happening by accident? Lucky: a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career.
How can I explain my views on the politics of Iraq?
- Happy accident
- to boot
- icing on the cake
- gravy
(in order of ethical virtue/vice of circumstances)
(Fair Haven)
” fluke” is something that happens unexpectedly because of an accident or so, and could describe such an unintended benefit. Although they’re not always beneficial, “flukes” are usually good things to do with one’s life.
The fluke was a single occurrence, as J.C. Clampett’s discovery of Oil (arguably a benefit to Mr. Clampett) while shooting at a rabbit was a fluke, but they can also be the result of a series of actions or circumstances, or even inaction.
How do “accidental,” “chance,” “unexpected” and “unintentional” words are related as are “unintended, unexpected, and ‘fluke’.
The “fluke” as progress does not mean to mean to fluke or’fluke upon…’ or “fluked into” as on a term, although these are not exactly as common as other into/unto idioms like “fell upon” or “lucked’ into…”. “”Peut
any reason to doubt “.”
What attracts me most is the added bonus. And why?
What is the right surprise to describe in the right context would fit the bill, particularly an
extra surprise.
What is the stroke
of fortune?
The Cambridge dictionary of American
idioms Stroke was derived from the verb
strike: “act of striking,” p. 107. The meaning is simple, but easy. 1300,
probably from Old English *strac “stroke”, from Proto-Germanic *straik (cognates: Middle Low German strek, German streich, Gothic striks “stroke”, see stroke (v.).The meaning “mark of a pen” is from European
tradition; that of “a striking of a clock” is from from late-15c.
Sense of ” feat, achievement ” (as in stroke of luck, 1843) first found 1670s; the
meaning “single pull of an oar or single movement of machinery” is from 1731.
Meaning “apoplectic seizure” is from the 1790s (originally the Stroke of God’s Hand).
Swimming sense was from 1800.What is Etymonline? What does the
emphasis mine do?
sendipitous
adjective adjective: usually
occurring on accident in a happy or beneficial way with someone else. From Oxford Dictionaries
online.
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